[email protected] wrote:
I have some questions regarding these settings. I put the following lines in
our dnews.conf
spam_stop true
spam_keepn 100
spam_dup_hits 14
spam_dup_cross 14
and copied the filter.dat file from your to our dnews\work directory.
> I found that it was making everything out to be spam. So then I added "spam_test
true"
>(no quotes) to the dnews.conf file. I realize that this allows all posts
through and logs
> what it thinks a post is, spam or not, but I couldn't figure out what file it
logs to or
> what to look for in the log to see the results.
As I recall the sample filter.dat is rather heavy handed. On our site you will
find another filter
'filter_most.dat'
get that one instead and copy it to filter.dat and it should work better.
I believe dnews.in is the place to look for the log entries.
Also I was wondering if when "spam_stop" is set to "true" and "spam_test" is set to "false"
>dnews primarily uses filter.dat in addition to the other "spam_xxxxxx"
settings. I mean, if
> you only have three strings in filter.dat will a post be marked as spam only
if it contains one
>of those three strings or is crossposted over 10000 groups, for instance.
Yes
Or, does the spam filter do other types of tests, like reverse dns lookups.
No
ChrisP.
